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By Andy Sullivan June 9 (Reuters) – Maine oyster farmer Graham Platner faces Democratic voters on Tuesday under scrutiny over online posts, a Nazi-linked tattoo and allegations he sent explicit texts in a Senate race that could determine whether his party wins control of the U.S. Senate in November. Platner, a Marine veteran who has campaigned as a populist outsider, is seen as the likely winner of Tuesday’s primary. A […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, June 9 (Reuters) – Treatments based on the same mRNA technology that delivered COVID-19 vaccines to market in record time are showing lasting benefit against the deadly skin cancer melanoma and early promise in pancreatic and brain cancers once considered impervious to immune system assault. The apparent breakthroughs in cancer vaccines – deemed one of the fastest-growing segments of cancer research – are arriving even as […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have now discovered fossils of a dinosaur that seems to fit the bill. Scientists said they unearthed bones of a Cretaceous Period dinosaur about the […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) – Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday. The report by the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli authorities have enabled settler attacks through financial and military support, in a […]

June 9 (Reuters) – AI is saving clinicians time, but the majority of healthcare professionals say training in the technology is inadequate, inconsistent or unavailable, a global survey by Philips showed on Tuesday. The study, Philips Future Health Index, was carried out through two quantitative surveys, one with 2,011 healthcare professionals and another with 20,085 patients across 10 countries. • Most AI use cases for healthcare professionals include using it as […]

SECUNDA, South Africa (AP) — Growing up witnessing the devastating effects of HIV in her family and community in South Africa pushed Olwam Plaatjie to start using preventive HIV medications three years ago. “Sometimes they’d lose weight, they would get sick and have to go to the clinic, and I didn’t want that for me,” she told The Associated Press. “I’d see the people I live with taking (antiretroviral) pills […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo, authorities said. Attacks on health workers from angry residents, skepticism among some locals and armed conflict in hot spots continue to challenge efforts to stop the spread. Out of the 550 cases of the disease confirmed as of Sunday, there have been 101 […]

Christian Yelich slid home ahead of the throw on an infield grounder in the 12th inning, giving the Milwaukee Brewers a wild 15-14 comeback victory over the Athletics on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in Las Vegas, the future home of the A’s. Each team scored four times in the 10th. William Contreras belted a three-run homer to cap the top of the inning, putting the Brewers […]

BENGALURU, June 9 (Reuters) – Indian software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services expects IT companies to have an equal number of employees and AI agents in their workforce, Chairman N Chandrasekaran said at the annual general meeting on Tuesday.  TCS does not plan to downsize staff, but will slow down hiring, he said. Last July, the company had cut more than 12,000 jobs.   “If the company has half a million […]